(Yet) when God puts a (motive of) wrath into your bread, that bread will stick in your gullet (and choke you) like a quinsy.
چونک حق قهری نهد در نان تو ** چون خناق آن نان بگیرد در گلو
This garment that protects you from the cold—God gives it the temperature of intense frost,
این لباسی که ز سرما شد مجیر ** حق دهد او را مزاج زمهریر
So that this greatcoat on your body becomes cold as ice and biting as snow.
تا شود بر تنت این جبهی شگرف ** سرد همچون یخ گزنده همچو برف
(This He does) in order that you may flee from the fox-fur and silk and take refuge from them with the intense cold.
تا گریزی از وشق هم از حریر ** زو پناه آری به سوی زمهریر
You are not the (statutory) two qullas (ewers), you are (only) one ewer: you have forgotten the (Divine) chastisement inflicted by an overshadowing cloud.2175
تو دو قله نیستی یک قلهای ** غافل از قصهی عذاب ظلهای
In town and village, to (every) house and wall came the command of God, “Give no shade!
امر حق آمد به شهرستان و ده ** خانه و دیوار را سایه مده
Do not ward off the rain and the (heat of the) sun!” so that the people went in haste to that Apostle (Shu‘ayb),
مانع باران مباش و آفتاب ** تا بدان مرسل شدند امت شتاب
Crying, “We are dead for the most part: mercy, O Prince!” Read the rest of it in the book of commentary (on the Qur’án).
که بمردیم اغلب ای مهتر امان ** باقیش از دفتر تفسیر خوان
Since that deft-handed One made the rod (of Moses) a serpent, that instance is enough if you have any intelligence.
چون عصا را مار کرد آن چستدست ** گر ترا عقلیست آن نکته بس است
You possess (the faculty of) consideration, but it does not go deep (into the subject): it is a frozen spring and has stopped (flowing).2180
تو نظر داری ولیک امعانش نیست ** چشمهی افسرده است و کرده ایست